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Public Playgrounds
Independent playground directory — we do not own or operate parks. For access, maintenance, closures, or incidents, contact the park operator.

About Public Playgrounds

Our mission is to help families find outdoor playgrounds and see what public map data actually records before they visit. A map pin alone rarely answers whether a place has shade, fencing, a restroom, or evidence of public access. Public Playgrounds brings those source-backed details together without turning missing information into a guess.

The directory contains 10,804 playgrounds across 953 cities and 23 states and territories. Profiles link to their OpenStreetMap source records and show the retrieval date. Where a detail is recorded, we show it with its source. Where it is not, we say that plainly. A public-access signal does not guarantee that a park is open at a particular hour.

What this directory will not do

  • No “best” or “safest” lists. We have no defensible method for ranking a playground, so we do not pretend to.
  • No ratings, reviews or photos copied from other services.
  • No invented amenities. A missing fence tag means nobody recorded a fence, not that there is no fence.
  • No paid placement. Nothing on this site can be bought.

Coverage

Coverage grows city by city rather than all at once, because a listing is only worth publishing when it can be placed in a real city and tied back to a source. The data sources page explains exactly how a record gets in, and which kinds of records are held back.

Something wrong or out of date? Report a correction with the page URL and a public source, or email [email protected]. We review corrections against evidence, not payment.

Directory last generated: 2026-10-11. About page reviewed October 8, 2026. This site is independent of the parks, cities and agencies listed, and is not a source of safety, accessibility or legal advice.